Are you referring to the part at where she’s trying ineffectually to break his dangerous, potentially lethal chokehold attempt, or are you referring to the part a few seconds later where her arm flies out because he’s levering her spinal column against a steel-and-composite fulcrum?
Either way, nope, don’t have a problem with that. (I’m the guy that got chastised for saying the human act of self-defense is natural and instinctive, in case you missed that earlier discussion.)
I think Officer McThugly was very lucky he didn’t fire own his taser into his leg completely accidentally. The only part of the altercation that he performs with any grace or judgement is when he tosses her across the room. He actually did that part pretty cleanly, without endangering himself at all, and probably with very little damage to her. But he wouldn’t have needed to toss her in the first place if he hadn’t been behaving like a complete idiot, endangering everyone in the room including himself.
BTW, I appreciate your polite response to the impolite messages of others. If that policeman had shown as much restraint, he’d never have gotten himself in trouble.
@Papasan, THE BEATINGS WILL CONTINUE UNTIL MORALE IMPROVES!
It’s irrelevant because they shouldn’t be doing it to ANYBODY. Period. If this person wasn’t a citizen, and therefore technically not his boss, it would still be unacceptable. Lots of things that police do to people (arrest them, put them in holding cells, give them speeding tickets, etc) would sound very bizarre if you bring up that they are doing it to “their boss”
Yeah, this. Oh hey look, it’s a fire. And what do we have…uh, doesn’t matter, let’s just use that gas can to put it out, then we can shoot at it with this handgun.
Same here, but I think that is not the same statement a person of color might make (which is part of the problem).
He threw a temper tantrum because someone didn’t respect his alleged authority. Behavior most commonly associated with toddlers, rather than idiots. Fire him yesterday.
OK… I would think that it would be more relevant for that very same reason.
I agree.
It only seems bizarre because people see these as roles rather than functions, which is what causes and perpetuates the problem. To many cops, people fulfill the roles of either “criminal” or “victim”, there is no neutral “citizen” who forms the status quo of society. People often see the role of police as being a person who has the authority to order them around at a whim, and who is not accountable to them. This creates problems. The story we are told is that municipalities and police cannot possibly do their jobs without autonomy from us, but I find this very much suspect. It’s why citizens complain that they have lost control.
“Give me the child until he is seven and I’ll give you the man. And if that doesn’t work, I’ll call in the Inquisition for a nice auto da fé” – Saint Francis Xavier
Yep. I watched one of the kids in that video, and the way he’s hanging his head (so he doesn’t make the dangerous eye contact) and watching the action surreptitiously tells me that he’s seen this kind of shit before in his community, and he knows better than to stand up and say something…because then he’d be the one getting thrown around like a rag doll. That video speaks volumes.
Quite possibly. But parents can strike fear into your heart without laying a hand on you. When I was very little, my parents punished misbehavior with spanking. By the time I was this girl’s age, they explained that the spankings were over. I’d realized by then that their spankings weren’t actually very painful and mainly deterred me due to the notion and the humiliation they cause me, most especially on the rare occasion they happened in public. After that, the groundings and other more strategic punishments replaced the spankings, and those were much more effective on me from middle-school onward. That said, the only time I ever actually saw my mom get violent was when she put a grown woman in an armlock for trying to strike me.
Let’s be clear, what this shithead did wasn’t punishment, it was abuse. He threw her across the room.
Good parenting! Very unpopular these days, in the same way that breast-feeding was unpopular when I was a child. My mother says she was viewed with distaste because she insisted on the barbaric, old-fashioned, woman-oppressing scientifically disproven method of feeding her children, instead of using the superior, scientifically composed and thoroughly hygienic infant formula.
@davide405, incidence of violent abuse in the homes of police officers is way higher than the general populace. This has been well documented… although most police departments will not fill out the paperwork if the complaint is against “one of their own” (also well documented behavior).
We’re having our first kid in 6 months. We’ve talked it over, and we probably won’t even do the light spankings my parents favored. I don’t think there’s one right way to parent, but I do think it’s a good idea to plan in advance how you’ll punish misbehavior. Abusers aren’t really punishing, though. They’re taking their own rage out on the most vulnerable proximate victims they can find.
Thanks! Although congrats are really due to my partner. She’s doing the hard part now. In 6 months is when I find out how well I function without sleep
More like in 3-4 months when the teething begins. If your newly minted human tolerates pain well, your sleep will be minimally disrupted. If not, you have my sympathy and and you won’t be alone in the can’t-remember-a-fucking-thing-anymore club.
